Topic: Metaphilosophy

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And this is also the case for metaphilosophy; to put is bluntly, we are better placed today than the Greeks were to understand what philosophy is. Relying on such improved understanding, the further issue as to what contribution it makes to the education of humanity can be addressed.

Normative metaphilosophy, by contrast, is concerned with which are the appropriated problems, the justifiable thesis and the correct methods of philosophy.

Rescher's objection to syncretism in metaphilosophy stems from his belief that because of its readiness to embrace all different answers to a given question, it is bound to hold contradictory answers.

www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Meth/MethBena.htm (4100 words)

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Metaphilosophy is concerned with the nature, purpose, and methods of philosophy.

One of the branches of metaphilosophy is what I call philosophical apologetics.

Its task is to defend philosophy against such cultural competitors as science, religion, mysticism, and socio-political activism.

Brian Leiter has posted some interesting comments concerning a recent conference entitled "The Challenge of Philosophical Naturalism" that was held at the Rutgers University Institute for Law and Philosophy.

Just a reminder that the 2005 meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology is June 9-12 at Wake Forest and the program is complete.

No amount of showing that the intuitions of experts differs from those of laypeople is sufficient to show that the experts are wrong or that intuition-based philosophy is over.

The polymorphism of consciousness as the key to philosophy: Towards a Lonerganian postmodern metaphilosophy

This also opens the way to an integral account of polymorphism that would include reference to levels of consciousness and to differentiations of consciousness.

Such an integral account of polymorphism provides a basis for a more nuanced metaphilosophy, a meta-philosophy relevant to the postmodern concern for difference and plurality and to cross-cultural philosophy.

Abstract: The metaphilosophy of naturalism is about the nature and goals of naturalist philosophy.

A real or hypothetical person who knows the nature, goals and consequences of naturalist philosophy may be called an “informed naturalist.” An informed naturalist is justified in drawing certain conclusions about the current state of naturalism and the research program that naturalist philosophers ought to undertake.

This paper is a metaphilosophy of naturalism, not a philosophical argument that naturalism is true.

One of these metaphilosophies takes the philosopher's task to be, at least in part, the mapping out of the structure of 'our' concepts of philosophical matters like AGENCY or KNOWLEDGE.

Because this metaphilosophy appeals to the superiority of the rational apperceptions of the specially enlightened, we can call this the "Platonic metaphilosophy".

A common argumentative strategy among philosophers is the technique of introducing thought experiments or intuition pumps in an attempt to establish the intuitive plausibility of the claim or principle that is being put forward.

My secondary purpose is making this list is to help students come up with paper topics, read philosophy with attention to its implicit metaphilosophy, and sort out their own metaphilosophical thoughts.

Compare the metaphilosophies of a few philosophers on their self-referential consistency.

What features of a philosophy and a metaphilosophy permit one to use the "tarbaby defense", that is, to embrace and envelope all critics and dissenters, saying they are explained by the system and even confirm the truth of the system?

The way I approach metaphilosophy would cause him real grief and in more than one dimension.

He would be especially upset at my unabashedly psychologistic posture, since, if I should have learned anything from him, it would be that philosophical questions need to be carefully separated from their psychological, social and historical context in order to deal with them on their own abstracted terms.

For as the coverpage caricature of a dictionary definition of the term "metaphilosophy" is meant to suggest, I will be a metaphilosopher doggedly and devotedly pursuing Freudian explanations.

The recent acrimony and thread closures concerning the demise of you-know-who got me thinking about hosting a "meta-philosophy" discussion.

And this is where we should really try to understand and see the idea behind ‘Just because a proposition makes sense or intelligible, it doesn’t make it true.’ Alongside true propositions are false propositions, and this is where the difficulty lies.

And this is when metaphilosophy could really do its work, at least to W, in discovering the mistakes of past philosophers.

It seems appropriate to mark the difference by "alternative conceptual scheme." Further, I claim that not translation but rather a process of substitution of, or addition to, a first language is the key to understanding a radically different second language."

Equally rejecting uncritical nostalgia for the past and facile enthusiasm for the present, the twin errors that everything has changed and nothing has changed, positivist endorsement of what exists and hypercritical rejection of it, the final instalment of the trilogy seeks to track the continuities and discontinuities in daily life in the intervening twenty years.

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Metaphilosophy and Free Will by Richard Double : Book(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)

Metaphilosophy and Free Will by Richard Double : Book

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Book | Critique of Everyday Life, Volume III: From Modernity to Modernism (Towards a Metaphilosophy of Daily Life)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)

Her principal research interests are philosophical issues presented by art law (especially freedom of expression and copyright) and philosophy of dance.

She has published articles in Art and Academe; the British Journal of Aesthetics; Dance Research Journal; the Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics; the Journal of Aesthetic Education; the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society; the Journal of Value Inquiry; and Metaphilosophy.

She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Society for Aesthetics and the Board of Editorial Consultants of the Journal of Aesthetic Education.

www.csulb.edu /~jvancamp/multi/bio.html (200 words)

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The Range Of Pragmatism And The Limits Of Philosophy (Metaphilosophy Series in Philosophy) by Richard Shusterman : Book(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)

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Daniel Berthold(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)

Author of Hegel’s Grand Synthesis and Hegel’s Theory of Madness.

Articles and reviews in journals including Nous, Review of Metaphysics, Idealistic Studies, Clio, Man and World, International Studies in Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, Ludus Vitalis, Religious Studies, Environmental Ethics, Social Theory and Practice, Metaphilosophy, History and Theory, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly.

Advisory Council, Hastings Center Program in Ethics, Science, and the Environment.